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CLARA CARE AND GEORGE D. sootr'r, on NEW YORK, N. Y., EXEOUTRIX ANDEXEoUToE OF WILLIAM s. CARR, DEoEAsED.

VALVE FOR WATER-CLOSET'CISTERNS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 252,735, dated January24, 1882. Application filed October 22, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that WILLIAM S. CARR, late of thecity and State of New York, now deceased, did invent an Improvement inValves for Water-Closet Oisterns, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of this invention is to dispense with the servicebox inwater-closet cisterns, and at the same time prevent the waste of water.1

This improvement is adapted to allow the water to flow gradually fromthe cistern after the valve thereof has been raised by a pull, or by anadditional sleeve. The same valve is adapted to a hopper water-closet,in which the cistern-valve is lifted by the depression of thewater-closet seat, and the water does not run until the seat isreleased.

In the drawings, Figure lis a vertical section of the valve and itsappliances, and Fig.

2 is asectional plan at the line no a.

' The cylinder a is provided with a flange, 1, beneath the bottom I) ofthe cistern, and the upper end of said cylinder (0 passes through thecistern-bottom and forms a valve-seat. The nut and washer 2 serve toconnect the cylinder firmly to the cistern. At one side of the cylinderto there is a. coupling, (7, and pipe leading to the water-closet. Acylinder, 6, is

0 screwed to the bottom of the cylinder 0, and its interior surface islarger than the tubef. The air and overflow tube f is finished 01fsmooth at its lower end to slide in the contracted lower end of thecylinder to, and it has 5 a small valve, 1?, at the otherwise closedlower end opening outwardly, so that when the tube fis-raised water mayflow into the cylinder 0, and such water-cylinder 6 will act as adashpot or variable chamber to prevent the tubef 4o descending rapidly,because the valvct' closes and the water is sufficiently confined toprevent the tube fdesccnding rapidly, in order that the valve h that iscariied by the tubef may remain open the proper time before it closesupon the seat at the upper end of the cylinder a;

It is to be understood that the water in the cylinder 0 will passgradually up through the small space left between the outside of thetubef and the contracted part of the cylinder (1 as the tube and valvedescend.

Thetubefis slotted below the valve h for the passage of water from thecistern to the pipe leading to the closet, and this tubef is to belifted either by the water-closet pull or by a connection to the seat ofthe hopper watercloset, such connections being the ordinary levers andwires or chains. Hence if a pull is used it will be lifted and thendropped, and the tubefand valve are raised and descend 6o gradually,allowing the water to run to the closet in the required quantity; butifa hopper-closet and hinged seat are used the water would continue torun as long as the seat was depressed, The slotted portion of thetubefis thereforesurrounded with a sliding sleeve, a, to which the wire0 is connected, and by which the tubefis lifted. Hence when theclosetscatis depressed the sleeve a is moved up to the valve h and liftsthe same, and the tube fand said sleeve a keepthe slots in the tube fcovered, so that water cannot flow to the closet because the sleeve italso fills the opening of the valve-seat; but as soon as the pressure onthe seat of the closet is removed the sleeve it falls by gravity andallows the water to run, as before set forth, until the tubefgraduallydescends and the valve h closes upon its seat, as aforesaid.

' What is claimed as theinvention of the said WILLIAM S. GARE is 1. Thecombination, in a cistern-valve for water-closets, of the cylinder a,pipe to the water-closet, water-cylinder e, tubef, valve IL around thesame, and small valve 2' at the lower 'end, substantial'y as and for thepurposes set forth.

2. The sleeve a, sliding'upon the slotted portion of the tubef, and towhich sleeve the wire or connection to the water-closet is at- 9ctached, in combination with the valve h, (-ylinder a, water-cylinder c,and seat for the valve h, substantially as set forth.

Signed by us this 21st day of December, A.

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CLARA E. CARR, Erccutriac. GEORGE D. SCOTT, Executor.

Witnesses:

GEo. T. PINoKNEY, HARoLD SERRELL.

